Wrist Stretching Exercises (for Jugglers)

I've actually wanted to make this video for a while now. My goal is to offer advice about how to keep one of the most important pieces of juggling equipment (your wrists!) working over the long run (your lifetime). Post for June 25, 2007.

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Sports

Tags:

• wrist
• stretching
• exercises
• essential
• juggling
• jugglers
• chris
• taibbi
• ctjuggles

[andytaylor14]

hey man, great video! I struggle doing bicep curls because of my right wrirst.. so painful. A combination of your video and wrist straps certianly helped me! :) Thanks!

[ctjuggles]

Great! Glad it helps. Sorry 'bout your wrist.

[kennyjuggling]

These exercises r so good 4 me. luv this fantastic tutorial. & all the other 1s u've made so far.

[ctjuggles]

Thanks!

[dmarbizzle]

Great Tutorial!

I'm a rock climber and I'll attest too many of us do quick high torque wrist/forearm stretches without proper conditioning and isolation.

Thanks for these, I've gotta keep my wrists in shape because a lot of the time their the only thing keeping gravity from winning.

[ctjuggles]

Great point! I have a friend who is a top ranked one-of-a-kind rock climber-- even had his picture in Climbing calendar. His forearms are steel.

[WWWeres]

Thanks for the stretches. Do you do weight training or any other training for the benefit of juggling? I heard that some jugglers used heavy props to train muscle and ligaments.

[sbons]

This video has significantly improved my contact juggling practice. thanks !

[Beans4TheChowder]

Thanks a lot man! I can 3 ball cascade and i was working on my 4 ball fountain all of yesterday and today my right wrist is hurting a lot. These excises will be great for me. My wrists feel better already.

[InvisibleMasquerade]

@cytocarbon Planks my friend, planks...lots and lots of planks.

[webtoon999]

MY fingers are really not flexy at all like I can barely bend my ring finger without bending my pinky, please respond this does not effect my juggling right please reply I 'm so worryed please reply

[mage20022003]

@cytocarbon You can always bend at the knees when picking up a dropped ball, or you can learn kick-ups and not have to bend at all.

[iseldoff]

@cytocarbon dont drop anything get better damm it

[cytocarbon]

Hey, I really find your videos helpful. Do you have any suggestions on how to not get back pain from juggling? Every time I juggle for over 45 minutes my back hurts afterwords from bending over to pick up the props all the time. I'm not in bad shape at all so I don't know why this happens. I've tried stretching my back before I juggle but it doesn't seem to help. Stretching my back as much as I can I can only reach about a foot away from my feet so that might be a problem...

[BriManeely]

Thank you!! As a contact juggler, I definitely needed this!

[georgepowell]

Thanks, I have been getting a dodgy left wrist from juggling for about 3 hours a day for a month. I have bought a wrist support and I'm juggling about an hour a day now, and only with 3 and 4 balls.

I'll try these stretches.